We switched from Notes to Exchange/Outlook a few years ago. I would take Notes back in a heartbeat.
And of course all the Notes databases and apps got ported over about 2 years late. And don't work very well. And go down regularly.
Notes was an elegant solution before anyone else got there, and it takes 2-3 major services to replace Notes. But, hey, it's progress, and getting IBM GS out of your app dev is worth it.
'Illegal' means someone or some entity decided you should not be allowed to. In this case, the government of China has decided their citizens may not access certain sites. Apple has no doubt been told they cannot permit apps to be provided that bypass those restrictions, or they will be punished for doing so.
People in Germany think it's weird to buy a shotgun and bread in the same store.
There are other examples. Not about having modern supermarkets or such, just the cultural differences about certain goods and services and how they are usually acquired.
Much of the rest of the world thinks it's odd that in the U.S. you can go to a single store and buy a shotgun with ammo, oil for your car, and a loaf of bread. Walmart.
Much of the rest of the world has modeled their supermarkets on the U.S. model. Where you can buy that loaf of bread, a prepaid cellphone, an HDTV, and a paperback book. Oh, and a gift card for iTunes. Fry's, etc.
This is undoubtedly explored further on in this discussion, but I can foresee getting coupons for trinkets or even useful swag that I can present when I buy something, and come back to pick up my freshly-printed object. After snarfing up some Pringles speakers, this doesn't seem very far-fetched at all.
Hardware stores had better get on that 3FD printing thing pretty quick though, cause when Walmart and Staples own it, Home depot will be right there and Ace Hardware will be left out. Mostly.
Speaking of Ace, my local Ace is next door to an R/C hobby shop. THAT is a place that should be printing out custom gears and stuff, and a Prusa is mechanically similar to an R/C car in more ways than one. those guys should grok that stuff immediately and start cranking out parts people didn't know they wanted. Like tomorrow.
It would be equally correct that while HFT churns the market, it both creates and destroys liquidity, depending on the situation at the moment.
While human traders are left scrambling at the margins, and facing a market influenced greatly by these machines.
I personally no longer trade. Funds for the time being, looking for other vehicles. But traders are a few milliseconds from a flash crash that wipes them at the wrong time.
No real controls, not even the brokerage self-interest, prevents these. Just the coders, and the guys setting the variables. Not unlike human trading, except it is breathtakingly fast in HFT, and causes serious problems much much faster.
Having a pick set either declares you as an intruder, or someone who loses their keys more often than the pick set...
HFT is morally thievery, ethically abusive, and deserves to be regulated as such.
OR, alternatively, brokers, market makers, and exchanges need to fully and repeatedly disclose to investors the nature and impact of HFT. Those of us trying to time the market are wasting our time, the HFT guys have this down to milliseconds. Trying to find arbitrage is impossible.
Of course, when the Fed stops blowing up this bubble, then the market will collapse to a lower level, and there will be other investment vehicles that can attract capital. Until then, your savings account and CD are paying zilch, so you buy funds and houses. Since banks really don't want to go back into the savings business where they are accountable to their true owners, the depositors, we are facing a Fed intrusion that has no end in sight. Until that ends, individual capital is almost superfluous. And the stock market is the only game in town for many of us.
I knew a few F-4 drivers who could give the F-16 a challenge, having flown both and knowing tactics can equalize the advantage of airframe. Especially with unequal pilot skills. But generally, the F-16 should be both a challenging target and a useful RPV. win-win.
It doesn't have to be big at all. Within a few miles of the drone, around 100W would be enough to swamp a satellite link. Get the jammer high enough, it can radiate down and cause trouble, IF it can find a way to render the link unusable for a few moments. At the right time. Like when the drone is maneuvering towards the ground. Assuming the drone doesn't have a failsafe to survive loss of comm and avoid the ground. Of course then, if it's headless, it will need some intelligence to avoid the ground fire and other stuff while it regains contact with its master.
All good fun. Wish I were in the business again. Real electronic warfare still fascinates me.
You can count on it, both airborne jammers and ground-based.
And when 'they' figure out where the ground facilities are, and the uplinks, expect to see vans packed with goodies trying to jam there also.
For the drone wars, SAMs and AAMs are the secondary threats. Communications will be the primary weakness, and the effort is surely underway to degrade or defeat that. Obvious tactic.
And equally obvious to secure the command link, even if the video feeds aren't. At least until the little buggers become autonomous.
But I'm not much worried. If you can keep an F-4 from being shot down, you can keep the comm channel secured. Or something like that.
It has been my experience that many of those those who try to convince me that Creationism is false and Evolution is correct go blithely from evolution to creation, and intend to disprove Creationism in the process of proving evolution.
Yep, one does not prove the other. Mostly. Certainly evolution doesn't prove much about creation.
I've been taught that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, some from God's divine communication. At least Genesis, since Moses wasn't there for all the really good stuff.
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We switched from Notes to Exchange/Outlook a few years ago. I would take Notes back in a heartbeat.
And of course all the Notes databases and apps got ported over about 2 years late. And don't work very well. And go down regularly.
Notes was an elegant solution before anyone else got there, and it takes 2-3 major services to replace Notes. But, hey, it's progress, and getting IBM GS out of your app dev is worth it.
Shouldn't this be titled "Whirlpool ditches Notes, doesn't choose Exchange"?
Prior art? I can show it to them if they driver over from their nearest datacenter.
What a load. Serve included this as as base feature.
'Illegal' means someone or some entity decided you should not be allowed to. In this case, the government of China has decided their citizens may not access certain sites. Apple has no doubt been told they cannot permit apps to be provided that bypass those restrictions, or they will be punished for doing so.
Predictable.
People in Germany think it's weird to buy a shotgun and bread in the same store.
There are other examples. Not about having modern supermarkets or such, just the cultural differences about certain goods and services and how they are usually acquired.
We are different. Just like every other place is.
I didn't write 'the rest of the world'. I wrote 'much of the rest of the world'.
Subtle, I know. But you can recognize it when it's pointed out, right?
Just so we are clear here...
Much of the rest of the world thinks it's odd that in the U.S. you can go to a single store and buy a shotgun with ammo, oil for your car, and a loaf of bread. Walmart.
Much of the rest of the world has modeled their supermarkets on the U.S. model. Where you can buy that loaf of bread, a prepaid cellphone, an HDTV, and a paperback book. Oh, and a gift card for iTunes. Fry's, etc.
This is undoubtedly explored further on in this discussion, but I can foresee getting coupons for trinkets or even useful swag that I can present when I buy something, and come back to pick up my freshly-printed object. After snarfing up some Pringles speakers, this doesn't seem very far-fetched at all.
Hardware stores had better get on that 3FD printing thing pretty quick though, cause when Walmart and Staples own it, Home depot will be right there and Ace Hardware will be left out. Mostly.
Speaking of Ace, my local Ace is next door to an R/C hobby shop. THAT is a place that should be printing out custom gears and stuff, and a Prusa is mechanically similar to an R/C car in more ways than one. those guys should grok that stuff immediately and start cranking out parts people didn't know they wanted. Like tomorrow.
It would be equally correct that while HFT churns the market, it both creates and destroys liquidity, depending on the situation at the moment.
While human traders are left scrambling at the margins, and facing a market influenced greatly by these machines.
I personally no longer trade. Funds for the time being, looking for other vehicles. But traders are a few milliseconds from a flash crash that wipes them at the wrong time.
No real controls, not even the brokerage self-interest, prevents these. Just the coders, and the guys setting the variables. Not unlike human trading, except it is breathtakingly fast in HFT, and causes serious problems much much faster.
Ethically, HFT is nasty. IMHO.
Competitive, but thievery.
Having a pick set either declares you as an intruder, or someone who loses their keys more often than the pick set...
HFT is morally thievery, ethically abusive, and deserves to be regulated as such.
OR, alternatively, brokers, market makers, and exchanges need to fully and repeatedly disclose to investors the nature and impact of HFT. Those of us trying to time the market are wasting our time, the HFT guys have this down to milliseconds. Trying to find arbitrage is impossible.
Of course, when the Fed stops blowing up this bubble, then the market will collapse to a lower level, and there will be other investment vehicles that can attract capital. Until then, your savings account and CD are paying zilch, so you buy funds and houses. Since banks really don't want to go back into the savings business where they are accountable to their true owners, the depositors, we are facing a Fed intrusion that has no end in sight. Until that ends, individual capital is almost superfluous. And the stock market is the only game in town for many of us.
My rental property looks real good right now.
Looks the the DEA is winning this argument, based on their efforts and responses.
No, it applies to all healthcare professionals and those handling the information.
I knew a few F-4 drivers who could give the F-16 a challenge, having flown both and knowing tactics can equalize the advantage of airframe. Especially with unequal pilot skills. But generally, the F-16 should be both a challenging target and a useful RPV. win-win.
And F-100s, F-104s, F-4s. Probably others I won't bother to look up.
No, not new, not even a new purpose. Unless they shoot back. And a cheap way to develop the concept of unmanned fighters. Which are inevitable.
It doesn't have to be big at all. Within a few miles of the drone, around 100W would be enough to swamp a satellite link. Get the jammer high enough, it can radiate down and cause trouble, IF it can find a way to render the link unusable for a few moments. At the right time. Like when the drone is maneuvering towards the ground. Assuming the drone doesn't have a failsafe to survive loss of comm and avoid the ground. Of course then, if it's headless, it will need some intelligence to avoid the ground fire and other stuff while it regains contact with its master.
All good fun. Wish I were in the business again. Real electronic warfare still fascinates me.
You can count on it, both airborne jammers and ground-based.
And when 'they' figure out where the ground facilities are, and the uplinks, expect to see vans packed with goodies trying to jam there also.
For the drone wars, SAMs and AAMs are the secondary threats. Communications will be the primary weakness, and the effort is surely underway to degrade or defeat that. Obvious tactic.
And equally obvious to secure the command link, even if the video feeds aren't. At least until the little buggers become autonomous.
But I'm not much worried. If you can keep an F-4 from being shot down, you can keep the comm channel secured. Or something like that.
I remember working on F-4Ds. Those (or were they -Gs?) were turned into both drones as targets. QF was the designation I think.
As were F-100s, F-104s, even F-86s, almost all as target drones.
Nothing new to see here, unless one of these shoots down something fast. That would be cool.
If they had a plausible explanation, I would have to consider it.
Since evolution creation, we risk mixing the two and causing all sorts of problems.
It has been my experience that many of those those who try to convince me that Creationism is false and Evolution is correct go blithely from evolution to creation, and intend to disprove Creationism in the process of proving evolution.
Yep, one does not prove the other. Mostly. Certainly evolution doesn't prove much about creation.
"You cannot teach religion in school"
Oh? Please, go on.
"the better rational explanation."
I'm still waiting for a ration explanation of the creation of our Universe. Science doesn't seem able to do that yet, which doesn't worry me at all.
Not ironic. Predictable, and predicted.
I've been taught that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, some from God's divine communication. At least Genesis, since Moses wasn't there for all the really good stuff.
Yes, a clever rhetorical device there. i know.
Hmmm. Sort of.
I tend to think Genesis didn't go into sufficient detail of HOW God did all this, so Science has an opportunity to explain.
But Science seems bent on disproving God.
" it is best for them (and their children) to avoid any attempt at rigorous proof"
The very definition of faith. Explaining this is fraught with uncertainty.